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The One Reliable Pipeline

The tricks and scams which enable the offshore owners of England’s water companies to clean up, while leaving us with their mess.

Casting Out Angels

Peaceful protesters are facing extreme and multiple punishments for the same offence: the offence of trying to defend Earth systems.

Moo Woo

What we want to believe and what is true are seldom the same thing.

Small Revolution

A remarkable political innovation in Devon could be the beginning of a new politics.

Chemicals Warfare

Outside the European Union, the UK is becoming a dumping ground for toxic substances.

First, Do No Harm

The appalling mistreatment of ME/CFS patients continues, based on the myth that it’s all in the mind.

Dry Run

The mega-droughts in Spain and the US are a portent of a gathering global water crisis.

Outrage Farming

What led the Prime Minister to join a protest against his own government’s policies?

The Long Wait

Here are the big green policies Labour should adopt.

Hard Labour

This could be not only Labour’s last chance but, if the party doesn’t recover some courage, British democracy’s.

Agrarian Populism

Farmers’ protests are being embraced by the far right. The precedents are chilling.

Stranded

Privatisation and austerity don’t cut costs: they just pass them on to us.

The Programme

A shadowy network of dark-money junktanks is delivering the same disastrous political package around the world.

Bully Beef

The meat industry’s misinformation tactics are even worse than the fossil fuel industry’s.

Baked In

The structure of the climate summits ensures that the most lethal interests prevail, by design. Here are some better models.